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One thing you may not know about Baby Zu is that she is rather into shoes. At least twice a day I catch her in our mud room camped out in a giant pile of shoes. No matter how many times we organize the shoes, by the end of the day, they are scattered out around the house again. They don’t even have to be hers. In fact, she takes it upon herself regularly to make sure that everyone in the house has a pair of shoes available to them at arm’s reach. So it only made sense to let…Read the rest of this entry →

A while back I wrote a post on why you should let your kids run around barefoot. Basically it boils down to the fact that bare feet is what nature intended, and that allowing your child some “sans shoes” time is a key component to healthy foot development. However, unless you spend all your days living in a warm-weathered hippie commune, there will be plenty of situations where appropriate footwear is not only recommended, but required. But just because your toddlers preschool enforces a shoe policy doesn’t mean that his/her tootsies have to feel cramped and restricted all day long.…Read the rest of this entry →